An Introduction to the counting house; or, A short specimen of mercantile precedents : adapted to the present situation of the trade and commerce of the United States of America. : For the use of schools and private education. / By Thomas Sarjeant. ; Intended as a supplement to the Elementary principles of arithmetic.

Format:

• Microformat

Contributor:

• Sarjeant, Thomas, compiler.

Series:

• Early American imprints. First series ; no. 21445.
• Early American imprints. First series ; no. 22127.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Arithmetic--Early works to 1900.
• Arithmetic.
• Arithmetic--Problems, exercises, etc.
• Business mathematics.

Genre:

• Problems and exercises.
• Booksellers' advertisements -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
• Textbooks.

Physical Description:

• 52 pages ; 16 cm (8vo)
• 4x6 in.
• monochrome
• service copy
• negative

Contained In:

[Unknown host].

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia: : Printed by Dobson and Lang for the editor; and sold by T. Dobson and W. Poyntell in Second Street; and W. Pritchard, T. Seddon, and Rice & Co. in Market Street., MDCCLXXXIX. [1789]

Notes:

• "The editor lays no claim to originality. --Considerable parts of the treatise were selected ... from those authors which were best adapted ..."--p. [3].
• Issued with: Elementary principles of arithmetic ... Philadelphia, 1788 (Evans 21445). Recorded separately by Evans (Evans 22127), but perhaps issued only with Elementary principles of arithmetic.
• Errata notes correcting both An Introduction to the counting house and Elementary principles, together with a bookseller's advertisement, p. 52.
• Microfiche. [New York : Readex Microprint, 1985] 11 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 21445).
• Microfiche. [New York : Readex Microprint, 1985] 11 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 22127).

Cited in:

• Evans 21445
• Evans 22127

OCLC:

55832723